The new LinuxONE Emperor II system has up to 170 cores which IBM considers to be equivalent to over 1,000 x86 cores. Beyond just the core Emperor IIprocessing compute power, the Emperor II has an additional 640 processors that are dedicated to I/O processing in an effort to improve both performance and data integrity.

From a system memory perspective, IBM specifications enable up to 32 TB of memory. From a networking perspective the Emperor II can support up to 96 ports with IBM’s OSA-Express 6S.